Share This Story!

Pinwheels for Peace at Community Montessori

Every student at Community Montessori walked with their teachers to the front lawn of the school’s campus Thursday morning to take part in Pinwheels for Peace, an initiative connected to International Day of Peace, which was Thursday.

JACKSON – Every student at Community Montessori walked with their teachers to the front lawn of the school’s campus Thursday morning to take part in Pinwheels for Peace, an initiative connected to International Day of Peace, which was Thursday.

Three school officials, Dr. Callie Dollar, Ms. Sarah Parrish, and Mrs. Catherine Akridge, coordinated the event that included the students building their own pinwheels and planting them in the ground for those who drive by to see the lawn ornaments by the hundreds throughout the day.

Each teacher took some time to talk with their students about the idea of peace – whether it be political peace with no wars between countries or more personal examples of tolerance in their daily lives and the absence of anxiety and violence in their lives.

The school’s PIE partners – Leaders Credit Union, Tim Ferguson Plumbing and Clayton-Little Attorneys – donated the supplies for the pinwheels which included paper, patterns for the wheel and pencils on which the wheels were mounted and stuck into the ground.

Second-grader Stella Stewart said she worked hard to put her pinwheel together.

“We just had to cut the paper and stick the pin in the pencil and put the paper on the pin so it will spin in the wind,” Stella said.

Other classes wrote messages of peace on their pinwheels. Another class planted their pinwheels with their music teacher and sang the song he wrote about peace.

Reach Brandon Shields at bjshields@jacksonsun.com or at 731-425-9751. Follow him on Twitter @JSEditorBrandon or on Instagram at editorbrandon.